Black Market on the Connected Realms

I'm an Asian player,i heard the "the first Connected Realms" news on our forum.I'm so confusing about the mechanism of the Black Market on those connected realms.They still have their incorporated ones or share one Black Market?

well, they stated that auction houseS would be connected, just like if all were the same realm, so one would have to assume that this would include black market.

But there is a big difference between the player AH and the Black Market AH, Blizz said you would still technically be on your "home realm" but you can interact with others, So I would assume the BMAH would be as it is now, separate for each realm, But it's not something I've seen any word on yet, so will be interesting to know.

But there is a big difference between the player AH and the Black Market AH, Blizz said you would still technically be on your "home realm" but you can interact with others, So I would assume the BMAH would be as it is now, separate for each realm, But it's not something I've seen any word on yet, so will be interesting to know.

If by 'technically' you (and they) mean hardware on their end, and there's no discernible difference to players, then they might as well be one realm. The only thing I can see so far that distinguishes 'connected' realms from just being 'a' realm is that name changes aren't required as they would have been if the servers had 'merged.' Which, I mean, cool story.

But there is a big difference between the player AH and the Black Market AH, Blizz said you would still technically be on your "home realm" but you can interact with others, So I would assume the BMAH would be as it is now, separate for each realm, But it's not something I've seen any word on yet, so will be interesting to know.

Blizz said AH would function as one, they did not say "all AH except for BMAH" so we have to assume that BMAH will be one as well. Besides, the original intent of BMAH was for blizz to leach gold out of the game to fight inflation. This works well on high pop, but on low pop the auctions rarely even get bid on, so why wouldn't they merge them with connected realms?

Blizz said AH would function as one, they did not say "all AH except for BMAH" so we have to assume that BMAH will be one as well. Besides, the original intent of BMAH was for blizz to leach gold out of the game to fight inflation. This works well on high pop, but on low pop the auctions rarely even get bid on, so why wouldn't they merge them with connected realms?

They said "the auction house" Not "Houses" So that means we will have to assume they didn't mean BMAH, If they were speaking of the Player AH and the NPC AH they wouldn't have spoken about it singular, Again, it's all speculation untill we see it.

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Originally Posted by Grimble

"Connected realms" = server merge. Would be shocked if we kept separate BMAH.

That's entirely false, It's in no way =server merge, The whole reason they are doing the "Connected Realms" is because they didn't want to go down the "server merge" route, Connected realms is like cross realm is now, except the AH of those realms is linked, and you can trade with one another, and join guilds/raids, It's a very different thing to a server merge, especially on a technical level.

They said "the auction house" Not "Houses" So that means we will have to assume they didn't mean BMAH, If they were speaking of the Player AH and the NPC AH they wouldn't have spoken about it singular, Again, it's all speculation untill we see it.

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That's entirely false, It's in no way =server merge, The whole reason they are doing the "Connected Realms" is because they didn't want to go down the "server merge" route, Connected realms is like cross realm is now, except the AH of those realms is linked, and you can trade with one another, and join guilds/raids, It's a very different thing to a server merge, especially on a technical level.

Yes it is the merging route, only reason we're not getting an actual merge is because people would lose character names, guild names and whole lot more trouble.
Blizzard found a easy way to merge servers virtual but still be able to keep everything how it was.

Yes it is the merging route, only reason we're not getting an actual merge is because people would lose character names, guild names and whole lot more trouble.
Blizzard found a easy way to merge servers virtual but still be able to keep everything how it was.

This is better for the players and blizzard.

Less stress for everyone

You say in the same sentence it's the merging route, then say it's not an actual merge, how can it be a merge, and not be a merge at the same time? That makes no sense, Hence why they say "connected" they are connected realms, not merged, Because each realm still exists as itself.

You say in the same sentence it's the merging route, then say it's not an actual merge, how can it be a merge, and not be a merge at the same time? That makes no sense, Hence why they say "connected" they are connected realms, not merged, Because each realm still exists as itself.

It's a server merger that keeps a couple of extra database tables in the background. It wouldn't even surprise me at all if the servers were running on virtual machines on the same physical machine.

They said "the auction house" Not "Houses" So that means we will have to assume they didn't mean BMAH, If they were speaking of the Player AH and the NPC AH they wouldn't have spoken about it singular, Again, it's all speculation untill we see it..

You know, instead of trying to play cute with the wordplay you can actually get on Boulderfist and Bloodscalp and see that they have the same contents.